While we all know the checkered past of video game movies, the future projects of the medium have gamers excited. Between The Last of Us or any of the Ubisoft produced movies, it looks like developers have learned how to handle their products: and one of the most anticipated video game adaptation is Duncan Jones’ Warcraft movie. Duncan Jones is one of the most exciting filmmakers today: his critically lauded Moon and Source Code are loved in the sci-fi community. And finally, fans get their first look at the director on the Warcraft movie set (via Empire).
Courtesy of Empire Magazine.
Obviously like most set pictures, this does not reveal much at first glance; however, it is exciting to see the director and a partial glimpse of the actors. But if one truly looked at the picture, he or she would observe direct inspirations from the World of Warcraft game. First the picture reveals an armor clad soldier to the left of the director: and the armor looks like it belongs to the Soldiers of Lordaeron. And thanks to Wow Insider, a close up of the monitors reveal the Stormwind throne room: which has the “cartoony look of Warcraft, but grounded in realism.”
Close-up of Warcraft movie image. Thanks to Wow Insider.
This is exciting, even if it is a brief picture; the last Warcraft movie update was last year’s announcement that the Star Wars effects studio will be working on the project, as well as, the reveal of the plot. And for all those who do not know, the movie will follow Durotan and Lothar in an Orcs vs. Humans origin story: and according to the visual effects supervisor the movie will look like “Avatar meets Game of Thrones.”
The Warcraft movie has a planned release of March 2016: its December 18, 2015 release date was pushed back after the studio found out Star Wars Episode VII would share the same weekend. The epic fantasy adventure boasts an already large cast including Travis Fimmel, Ben Foster, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, and Clancy Brown: but expect to hear more casting news soon. For all gaming news, continue to read Gamer Headlines.
Cool Tidbit: “Director Uwe Boll contacted Blizzard about directing the film… [And Paul Sams of Blizzard replied] “We will not sell the movie rights, not to you… especially not to you. Because it’s such a big online game success, maybe a bad movie would destroy that ongoing income, what the company has with it.””
Source: Dark Horizon